(December 6, 2013 at 4:57 pm)Natedeezy Wrote: Wait, wait, wait.. You recognize human design, but.... You don't believe in a God or creator. So how is that incorrect?Your statement ("Through the eyes of an atheist, intelligence doesn't prove the existence of a creator") makes little sense to me. I don't know of any atheist who promotes that idea. If the original post in this topic is indicative, I'm not sure our definitions of "intelligence" are the same, at least when it comes to the natural world. Evolution and natural selection do a very good job of explaining much of what we consider to be intelligence at work in nature.
In regards to your comment, though, I do recognize human design when I read about gods and creators in books written by humans. I just don't believe that those gods are any more real that the ones we create today in books and movies and comics.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
